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"Summer Arctic Sea Ice Melt At Or Near Record"

"Arctic sea ice this summer melted to a record low extent or will come a close second, two different research institutes said on Tuesday, confirming a trend which could yield an ice-free summer within a decade."

Source: Reuters, 09/14/2011

"Extreme Weather Moves on To Agenda"

"The first six months of 2011 have brought image after image of human misery and ecological upheaval. Droughts, wildfires, twisters, floods, heat waves, extreme blizzards — just about every natural disaster you can imagine has hit just about every place on the planet."

Source: Toronto Star, 06/20/2011

"Satellite Data Sheds New Light on Solar Cycle"

"The sun may warm the Earth more during waning solar cycles, new satellite data has shown, turning scientific understanding on its head and helping to explain extreme local weather patterns, scientists said on Wednesday."

Source: Reuters, 10/07/2010

Extreme Weather Events Signal Global Warming to World's Meteorologists

"Fires across Russia, record floods in Pakistan, a huge Greenland iceberg -- this current unprecedented sequence of extreme weather events 'matches' scientific projections of more frequent and intense extreme weather events due to global warming, says an organization of meteorologists from 189 countries."

Source: ENS, 08/18/2010

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